| Year | Party | Abbr. | Leader | Region | Status |
|---|
| 1915 | Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha | ABHM | Madan Mohan Malviya | National | active |
| 1923 | Swaraj Party | SP | Chittaranjan Das,Motilal Nehru | Bengal Presidency | defunct merged withINC |
| 1939 | All India Forward Bloc[1] | AIFB | Sardul Singh Caveeshar Sheel Bhadra Yagee Subhas Chandra Bose | National | active |
| 1951 | Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party[2] | KMPP | Jivatram Kripalani | Madras State Vindhya Pradesh | defunct merged withPraja Socialist Party |
| 1951 | Hyderabad State Praja Party | | Tanguturi Prakasam N. G. Ranga | Hyderabad State | defunct merged withKisan Mazdoor Praja Party |
| 1951 | Saurashtra Khedut Sangh | | Narsinhbhai Dadhaniya Ratibhai Ukabhai | Saurashtra State | defunct merged withSwatantra Party |
| 1956 | Indian National Democratic Congress[3] | | C. Rajagopalachari | Madras State | defunct merged withSwatantra Party |
| 1959 | Swatantra Party[4] | | C. Rajagopalachari N. G. Ranga | Bihar Rajasthan Gujarat Orissa | defunct merged withBharatiya Kranti Dal |
| 1964 | Kerala Congress[5] | | K. M. George | Kerala | active as the original party has various factions, which have split off from it such asKerala Congress (M),Kerala Congress (Jacob),Kerala Congress (B),Kerala Congress (Democratic),Kerala Congress (Skaria Thomas),Kerala Congress (Thomas),Kerala Congress (Nationalist) |
| 1966 | Orissa Jana Congress | | Harekrushna Mahatab | Odisha | defunct merged withJanata Party |
| 1967 | Bangla Congress | | Ajoy Mukherjee | West Bengal | defunct merged with INC |
| 1967 | Vishal Haryana Party | | Birender Singh | Haryana | defunct merged with INC |
| 1967 | Bharatiya Kranti Dal[6][7] | | Charan Singh | Uttar Pradesh | defunct merged withBharatiya Lok Dal |
| 1968 | Manipur Peoples Party[8] | | Mohammed Alimuddin | Manipur | active |
| 1969 | Indian National Congress (R) | | Indira Gandhi | National | defunct merged with INC |
| 1969 | Indian National Congress (Organisation)[9] | | K. Kamaraj
| National | defunct merged withJanata Party |
| 1969 | Utkal Congress | | Biju Patnaik | Odisha | defunct merged withJanata Party |
| 1969 | Telangana Praja Samithi | | Marri Chenna Reddy | Andhra Pradesh | defunct merged with INC |
| 1971 | Biplobi Bangla Congress | | Sukumar Roy | West Bengal | active part of theLeft Front (West Bengal) |
| 1977 | Congress for Democracy[10] | | Jagjivan Ram | National | defunct merged withJanata party |
| 1978 | Indian National Congress (Indira) | | Indira Gandhi | National | defunct merged with INC |
| 1979 | Indian National Congress (Urs) | | D. Devaraj Urs | Karnataka Maharashtra Goa | defunct becomeIndian National Congress (Socialist) |
| 1980 | Congress (A) | | A. K. Antony | Kerala | defunct merged with INC |
| 1981 | Indian National Congress (Socialist)[11] | | Sharad Pawar | Karnataka Maharashtra Goa | defunct merged with INC |
| 1981 | Indian National Congress (Jagjivan)[11] | | Jagjivan Ram | Bihar | defunct |
| 1984 | Indian Congress (Socialist) - Sarat Chandra Sinha[12] | | Sarat Chandra Sinha | Assam | defunct Major faction of the party merged withNationalist Congress Party. However a residual faction still exists inKerala as a part ofLeft Front. |
| 1986 | Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress | | Pranab Mukherjee | West Bengal | defunct merged with INC |
| 1988 | Thamizhaga Munnetra Munnani[13] | | Sivaji Ganesan | Tamil Nadu | defunct merged withJanata Dal |
| 1990 | Haryana Vikas Party | | Bansi Lal | Haryana | defunct merged with INC in 2004 |
| 1994 | All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)[14] | | Narayan Datt Tiwari Arjun Singh Natwar Singh Rangarajan Kumaramangalam | Uttar Pradesh | defunct merged with INC |
| 1994 | Karnataka Congress Party | | Bangarappa | Karnataka | defunct merged with INC |
| 1994 | Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress | | Vazhapadi Ramamurthy | Tamil Nadu | defunct merged with INC |
| 1996 | Karnataka Vikas Party | | Bangarappa | Karnataka | defunct merged with INC |
| 1996 | Arunachal Congress | | Gegong Apang | Arunachal Pradesh | defunct merged with INC |
1996 2014 | Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)[15] | | G. K. Moopanar1996-2001 G. K. Vasan(2014–present) | Tamil Nadu | active merged with INC in 2001 split again from INC in 2014 |
| 1996 | Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress | | Madhavrao Scindia | Madhya Pradesh | defunct merged with INC |
| 1997 | Tamil Nadu Makkal Congress | | Vazhapadi Ramamurthy | Tamil Nadu | defunct |
| 1997 | Himachal Vikas Congress | | Sukh Ram | Himachal Pradesh | defunct merged with INC |
| 1997 | Manipur State Congress Party[16] | | Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh | Manipur | defunct merged withRJD |
| 1998 | All India Trinamool Congress | TMC, AITC | Mamata Banerjee | West Bengal | active left the alliance with INC |
| 1998 | Goa Rajiv Congress Party | | Francis de Souza | Goa | defunct merged withNationalist Congress Party |
| 1998 | Arunachal Congress (Mithi) | | Mukut Mithi | Arunachal Pradesh | defunct merged with INC |
| 1998 | All India Indira Congress (Secular)[17] | | Shish Ram Ola | Rajasthan | defunct merged with INC |
| 1998 | Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi[18] | | Suresh Kalmadi | Maharashtra | defunct merged with INC |
| 1999 | Bharatiya Jan Congress | | Jagannath Mishra | Bihar | defunct merged withNationalist Congress Party |
| 1999 | Nationalist Congress Party | | Sharad Pawar P.A. Sangma Tariq Anwar | Maharashtra Meghalaya Kerala | active alliance with INC. |
| 1999 | Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party | | Mufti Mohammad Sayeed | Jammu and Kashmir | active |
| 2000 | Goa People's Congress | | Francisco Sardinha | Goa | defunct merged with INC |
| 2001 | Congress Jananayaka Peravai | | P. Chidambaram | Tamil Nadu | defunct formed as TMCJP, merged withinc |
| 2001 | Thondar Congress | | Kumari Ananthan | Tamil Nadu | defunct merged with INC |
| 2001 | Pondicherry Makkal Congress | | P. Kannan | Puducherry | defunct |
| 2002 | Vidarbha Janata Congress | | Jambuwantrao Dhote | Maharashtra | active |
| 2002 | Indian National Congress (Sheik Hassan) | | Sheik Hassan | Goa | defunct merged withBharatiya Janata Party |
| 2002 | Gujarat Janata Congress | | Chhabildas Mehta | Gujarat | defunct merged with NCP |
| 2003 | Congress (Dolo) | | Kameng Dolo | Arunachal Pradesh | defunct merged withBharatiya Janata Party |
| 2003 | Nagaland People's Front | | Neiphiu Rio | Nagaland | active |
| 2005 | Pondicherry Munnetra Congress | | P. Kannan | Puducherry | defunct merged with INC |
| 2005 | Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran)[19] | | K. Karunakaran | Kerala | defunct merged withNationalist Congress Party and a large number of workers returned to the INC withK. Karunakaran later his sonK. Muraleedharan also returned to INC |
| 2007 | Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) | | Kuldeep Bishnoi | Haryana | merged with INC |
| 2008 | Pragatisheel Indira Congress (PIC) | | Somendra Nath Mitra | West Bengal | defunct merged withAll India Trinamool Congress |
| 2011 | Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party | | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy | Andhra Pradesh | active |
| 2011 | All India N.R Congress | | N. Rangaswamy | Puducherry | active |
| 2014 | Jai Samaikyandhra Party | | Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy | Andhra Pradesh | defunct merged withINC |
| 2016 | Chhattisgarh Janata Congress | | Ajit Jogi | Chhattisgarh | active |
| 2019 | Makkal Munnetra Congress | | P. Kannan | Puducherry | defunct |
| 2021 | Punjab Lok Congress | | Captain Amarinder Singh | Punjab | defunct merged withBharatiya Janata Party |
| 2022 | Democratic Progressive Azad Party | | Gulam Nabi Azad | Jammu and Kashmir | active |